Top 100 Your Own Quotes
#1. Write what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?
Raymond Carver
#2. Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead.
Tahir Shah
#3. Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can't get out of it on your own.
Tove Ditlevsen
#4. To know your soul is your own, that's what counts.
Marty Rubin
#5. The modern world is a meritocracy where you earn your own luck, old school ties count for nothing, and inherited privilege can even lose a guy a clear parliamentary majority.
Kate Reardon
#6. When the Bible says "Judge not that ye be not judged," it means that if you judge the reality of others you will be unable to avoid judging your own.
Foundation For Inner Peace
#7. Don't sit back and be a bystander of your own life
Caprice Crane
#8. Will you please go journeying
for your own sake,
till I come living a moment of life?
Suman Pokhrel
#9. They say, they own a piece of land. I say, you don't even own your own body.
Vinita Kinra
#10. You create your own reality. There is no other rule.
Seth
#11. The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness
Esther Hicks
#12. When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#13. I think you need to be a little in love - not necessarily in a romantic sense, although that helps - but to be in love with the reality of your own life.
Maria Popova
#14. Hang yourself, poet, in your own words.
Otherwise, you are dead.
Langston Hughes
#15. Where you are undoubtedly studying art history, women's studies, and probably casting your own bronzes. And you probably work in a coffee house to help cover the rent.
Neil Gaiman
#16. No matter what problem you encounter, whether it's a grand challenge for humanity or a personal problem of your own, there's an idea out there that can overcome it. And you can find that idea.
Ray Kurzweil
#17. The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.
Alice Walker
#18. It's your own fault for being so camera-ready, I tell Gale. If looks could kill.
Suzanne Collins
#19. You can contol nothing but your own thoughts, but with your thoughts you can control the whole world.
Debasish Mridha
#20. You fucking put those dick suckers anywhere near my woman again, and you'll be tasting your own arsehole, you got that?" Oliver snarled. "Now, fucking take your fruity arse behind the bar, and get me a fucking beer.
Kelli Jean
#21. If you want to be your own master ... always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it.
Mary McCarthy
#22. Remake the wild, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world. You cannot wait for anyone else, even a god, to do that for you.
Rick Riordan
#23. If you launch a career doing something you don't really like, that even if you're successful, you won't feel successful, and you'll be contemptuous of your own success.
Douglas Copeland
#24. A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.
Jacki Weaver
#25. Embrace The Power of The Ring! Or embrace your own destruction!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#26. I pity you. You've crawled up your own asshole and died.
Kurt Vonnegut
#27. A lesson without pain is meaningless. For you cannot gain anything without sacrificing something else in return, but once you have overcome it and made it your own ... you will gain an irreplaceable fullmetal heart.
Hiromu Arakawa
#28. A caring that gains only when losing; an obsessed desire to be bound, for love , in jail ; a capitulation to the one you've conquered yourself; a devotion to your own assassin every single day.
Luis De Camoes
#30. We were all created incomplete and will find no rest until we satisfy the deepest hunger and thirst within us. You've tried to satisfy it in your own way. I see that in your eyes, too, as I've seen it in so many others. And yet, though you deny it with your last breath, your soul yearns for God,
Francine Rivers
#31. Against Self-Pity
It gets you nowhere but deeper into
your own shit
pure misery a luxury
one never learns to enjoy.
Rita Dove
#32. Someone gave me a piece of advice once, my first manager Lucien Hold. He said, 'If you do stand-up about your own life, no one can steal it.' I always thought that was the best piece of advice.
Mike Birbiglia
#33. How can the power of speech remain when you lie for your own 'safeside'?
Dada Bhagwan
#34. People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas.
Ralph Regula
#35. Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
Honore De Balzac
#36. I'd tell you to fetch a match, but you have always had your own spark.
Courtney Milan
#38. Life is a journey that gives you the liberty to draw your own map, and choose your own route.
Dennis E. Adonis
#39. You might be my mate, he said, but you remain your own person. You decide your fate - your choices. Not me. You chose yesterday. You choose every day. Forever.
Sarah J. Maas
#41. What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of the one loved, both in body and in soul.
Saint Basil
#42. You're like the sun-completely blind to your own beauty because you are so busy making everyone around you shine. No matter how far we hide in the shadows, you share your light. That's how you stole my heart when no one else could find it.
Lexi Ryan
#43. This business of really knowing people, deep down, including your own self, it is not something you can learn in school or from a book. It takes your whole being to do it - your eyes and your ears, your brain and your heart. Maybe your heart most of all.
James Howe
#44. Take me with you?" she asked, reaching for is arm. He looked back at were the four women stood watching them and shook his head.
"I've seen Piper ruin a whole gaming area, Harper scares me, Elli is my boss, and I want your mom to like me...Sorry babe, you're on your own.
Toni Aleo
#45. Religion and practical life are not different. To take sanyas (renunciation) is not to abandon life. The real spirit is to make the country, your family, work together instead of working only for your own. The step beyond is to serve humanity and the next step is to serve God,
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
#46. Always be yourself and speak your truth. Better to allow others to walk away than betray your own soul.
Tonya Sheridan
#47. A Magnificent Banquet, being
A Thanksgiving for the Safe Return
Of our Beloved Daughter,
Princess Esmeralda.
Bring your own plates.
Angie Sage
#48. Most of my poetry lies beyond the SF field, yet here I am corralled into 'SF poetry' as part of this poetry weekend. Of course, some might say, 'you've made your own bed - now you must lie in it!' But, while fully accepting that dictum, I'm not yet quite prepared to lie down ...
Brian Aldiss
#49. not having a space you can call your own is dangerous. Everyone needs a sanctuary.
Marie Kondo
#50. If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes. If you continue complaining, it won't be long before they haul you out to a financial desert and there let you choke on the dust of your own regret.
Jim Rohn
#51. You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life.
Ethan Embry
#53. So when you look to the future for salvation, you are unconsciously looking to your own mind for salvation.
Eckhart Tolle
#54. You are not his princess; you are your own queen.
Nikita Gill
#55. If you want success, then be your own success story.
Steven Cuoco
#56. You have your own difficulties. We watch, with friendly confidence in your capacity to merge differences in the grand dream of Canadian design.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#57. Twice a day, or at least once, make your particular examens. Be careful never to omit them. So live as to make more account of your own good conscience than you do of those of others; for he who is not good in regard to himself, how can he be good in regard to others?
James Martin
#58. I think you've been trying so hard to control everything, intentionally picking the wrong people, just so you won't get hurt. And now you're starting to believe that you're incapable of anything more. You're beginning to believe your own lies." "Maybe.
Vi Keeland
#59. If you close your eyes, you get to control your own darkness.
Melina Marchetta
#60. In chess it is more important to frustrate your opponent's strategy than to be obsessed with your own.
Larry Evans
#61. There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.
Richard O'Brien
#62. I think I'm mostly looking forward to the college life. I'm looking forward to more freedom. Here everything is really structured and scheduled, but in college you've got to be more responsible and you can get things done on your own time. I'm really looking forward to that.
Nerlens Noel
#63. Number one house rule of pool: don't lose in your own house.
Mark Zupan
#64. It was strange how loud the world was when you weren't filling it up with your own noise.
Bridget Asher
#65. As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.
Bodhidharma
#66. Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking on your own; you will start looking around on your own. You will not believe in the scriptures; you will believe only in your own experience.
Osho
#67. To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.
Epictetus
#68. Luckily you cannot get to the Golden Triangle in a bus. You can only access it on your own two feet!
Arthur Frommer
#69. Your mother's heartbeat is the first sound you ever hear and your own heartbeat is the last.
Dave Brubeck
#70. A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#71. Enjoy the music in your earbuds in your own head. Dancing and singing because you enjoy the tune so much you can't contain yourself doesn't amuse others in Starbucks.
Paula Heller Garland
#72. Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another.
Thomas Merton
#73. You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, 'This is me, this is what I stand for, this is what you get when you read me. I'm doing the best I can - buy me or not - but this is who I am as a writer.
David Morrell
#74. The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if you measure it by your own yardstick.
Dainin Katagiri
#75. Let yourself live in something that is already rightfully yours - your own wild mind.
Natalie Goldberg
#76. You'll have your own superhero club before you know it. -Christian Ozera
Richelle Mead
#77. Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable
Homer
#78. You can always create your own experience of life in a beautiful and enjoyable way if you keep your love turned on within you- regardless of what other people say or do.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#80. How rarely did other
people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost
trembling thought?
Ray Bradbury
#81. People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
Douglas Coupland
#82. Very few designers today design - it's very important to be able to do your own sketch on paper and then explain [your vision] to the fabric cutters. Instead, lots of designers drape - it's the new way.
Valentino Garavani
#83. Seek other people's advice, but don't take orders. And don't take 100% of anyone's advice. Make sure every decision you make is a product of your own conclusion. Be a student, not a disciple.
Jim Rohn
#84. Unlike my father and millions of Chinese, everyone in America - every man, woman and child, whether rich or poor - has the freedom to choose, freedom to shape his or her own destiny. Don't you agree that you can better manage your own life than other people can?
Helen Raleigh
#85. If you want to know how I felt, imagine your own feelings on waking one morning to find that income tax or unrequited love had somehow vanished from the world.
C.S. Lewis
#86. One of the main problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem involved in becoming your own father or mother that a broadminded and well-adjusted family can't cope with.
Douglas Adams
#87. You are expressing your own limits in not allowing yourself to be taken for granted. If you are truly feeling like a martyr, or a person who has suffered a lot and deserves pity, make sure that you deal with that feeling first so that you are letting the child know about his behavior without guilt.
Henry Cloud
#88. My message to the serious programmer is this: spend a part of your working day examining and refining your own methods. Even though programmers are always struggling to meet some future or past deadline, methodological abstraction is a wise long term investment.
Robert W. Floyd
#89. It is difficult to speak of what is common in a way of your own.
Horace
#90. It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own.
Pam Brown
#91. I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's.
Craig Ferguson
#92. I wish I could show you ... the astonishing light of your own being.
Hafez
#93. Think of the difference between a team sport and one that you do by yourself. Like it or not, if you're by yourself, you're going to be faced with a lot more of your own doubts and your own drawbacks and your own whatever.
Campbell Scott
#94. Success is realising the true joy and wonder of life can only be yours if you follow your own intuition, aiming to achieve your bliss.
Steven Redhead
#95. At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't let people give you that peer pressure.
Wyclef Jean
#96. You carve out the organization's character through your daily choices. You shape its conscience as you exercise your own.
Price Pritchett
#97. I'm a really nostalgic person. I love taking photos and video and having memories. I remember all my childhood videos that my dad used to take. I think that's really what life is about - especially when you start a family of your own.
Kim Kardashian
#98. Change happens when you understand what you want to change so deeply that there is no reason to do anything but act in your own best interest.
Geneen Roth
#99. The more you hate, more you think about it, more you increase your own stress.
Mohit Manke
#100. The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people, and reality to something more positive ... and begin to act accordingly.
Shakti Gawain
